Timothy Birdnow

The trespassing gate crashers in Tijuana are so poor and desperate they are going on a hunger strike to force Mexican police to let them through to Los Estados Unidos.

From Reuters:

"On Thursday, as a steady rain fell and partially flooded the sports complex serving as the main shelter, it was Mexican police who stopped more than a dozen migrants from the caravan approaching the nearby El Chaparral border crossing.

"What the police are doing is unfair. The truth is we are fighting for our rights,” said one of the migrants, Gerson Madrid, a 22-year-old Honduran who started the trek to the United States in early October to better provide for a young daughter he left behind.

Madrid said the group was starting a three-day hunger strike to draw attention to the standoff."

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Now, how is it that these people - so desperately poor and starving, having walked all the way from Honduras - have the energy to be angry at their treatment and threaten to go on a diet? Usually diets are reserved for people who are, um, well-fed.

People who come as beggars don't cop attitudes. That these people do speaks volumes about them, and about those who are promoting the notion that they are somehow "refugees".

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